Personal profile

Research interests

Dick den Hertog is professor of Business Analytics / Operations Research at Tilburg University.His research interests cover various fields in prescriptive analytics, in particular linear and nonlinear optimization. In recent years his main focus has been on robust optimization and simulation-based optimization. He is also active in applying the theory in real-life applications. In particular, he is interested in applications that contribute to a better society. For many years he has been involved in research to optimize water safety, he is doing research to develop better optimization models and techniques for cancer treatment, and recently he got involved in research to optimize the food supply chain for World Food Programme.

Career

1992 - 1995: Consultant Operations Research at CQM

1995 - 1998: Senior consultant Operations Research at CQM

1998 - 2000: Top consultant Operations Research at CQM

2000-present: Full professor Operations Research, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Tilburg University

2006-2010: Vice-dean Research and Director of CentER, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Tilburg University

2016-present: Scientific director Data Science Center Tilburg (DSC/t)

2016-present: Leader of TiU theme "Creating Value from Data"

Awards

Delft University Fund - award, 1989, for the best faculty thesis

One of the three finalists for the A.W. Tucker Prize of the Mathematical Programming Society, Ann Arbor, 1994

EURO Best Applied Paper Award, Budapest, 2000 (with H.P. Stehouwer)

Teaching Quality Award (2001)

Best Teacher Award (FEB, 2003)

Docent of the year 2004/2005 (TEV)

INFORMS Franz Edelman Award 2012 (with a team of 8 other researchers)

Research Valorization Award 2015 (Tilburg School of Economics and Management)

Editor

Editor for STAtOR (2000-2006)

Associate editor for Operations Research Letters (2000-2011)

Associate editor for Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization (2008-2011)